League of Legends is one of the most popular games among esportsmen. Its monthly audience today is about 120 million players.
League of Legends (also known as LoL for short) is a role-playing video game with real-time strategy (MOBA) elements. It was developed and released by Riot Games on October 27, 2009 for the Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh platforms. Like playing sports, League of Legends is played in individual games. To play a game in a certain mode, you must apply and wait for the automatic selection of players for the next game. Selection is carried out taking into account the rating of the player in the corresponding mode. The search for a game lasts about a minute, while the game session itself usually lasts 16-65 minutes, depending on the mode. Each game starts with a clean slate, meaning all players have the same lowest starting level and starting amount of resources.
The goal of most game modes is to sequentially destroy all enemy structures protecting the main building at the base of the team - the nexus. The team that destroys the nexus wins, while the other team loses. There are towers on the approaches to the nexus. As defensive structures, towers fire at approaching enemy targets, prioritizing minion NPCs and attacking champions last. Finishing off minions, neutral monsters in the jungle, and destroying structures earns the champion experience points that increase the level of the champion, and gold needed to purchase items that increase his characteristics.
The main setting of the game is a dimension called Runeterra. In Runeterra, champions are both heroes and villains, with their backgrounds often linked to the political struggles of various nations on the continent of Valoran. There are characters from another world called the Abyss. Since 2011, the League of Legends World Championship has been held. The winners of the summer splits of the main professional leagues receive a ticket to it, and starting from 2013, selected teams from the International Wildcard regions take part in the tournament. Since 2015, the participants in the World Championship are determined on the basis of the Championship Points ranking, the distribution of points in which differs for each regional league.
In 2013, the United States equated professional League of Legends players with professional athletes, starting to issue them the so-called “athlete visas” of the P-1 category, which are also received by players in the NBA, NFL, NHL. Such recognition is considered one of the turning points in the history of eSports. Last December, Red Bull, together with game developers Riot Games, launched the Red Bull Universities program, a large-scale League of Legends competition among CIS universities. Within the framework of this program, university students from any of the CIS countries will be able to find friends among the players of their university, get together in a team and take part in the competition. Based on the results of the qualifier and the eSports tournament, the best teams will advance to the final, which will take place in Moscow in the spring of 2018. The main prize of the season is a trip to one of the stages of the Red Bull Air Race for all members of the winning team.
And here are the best League of Legends players: 1. Lee "Faker" Sang Hyuk. SK Telecom T1, LCK 2. Kim "Pray" Young In Longzhu Gaming, LCK 3. Kang Gorilla" Beom Hwan. Longzhu Gaming, LCK 4. Kim "Khan" Dong Ha Longzhu Gaming, LCK 5. Li "xiaohu" Yuanhao. Royal Never Give Up, LPL
It is also worth mentioning the earnings of these players. No one ever gives exact numbers, as the League of Legends developer tried to make a closed system in which neither the amount of compensation for the work of the team's coaching staff, nor the salaries of the players are disclosed. Only rumors or scraps of information from insiders reach us. In 2016, it was rumored that Chinese esports player Ming “Clearlove” Kai from Edward Gaming earns $1 million a year. An insider with the nickname Wh1t3zZ wrote the same thing about Koreans in 2014. One of the players (Pawn or Deft) earned the same EDG $ 1.2 million, and the coach, whose name is not disclosed - $ 500 thousand.
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